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My series of blog articles on Words and Music continues with Words and Music 16: Music and Beckett (3). It can be read on this site (Writing) or on the cmrc blog page here.

A new version of ‘Walking Away‘, read by the poet Norah Hanson with Damien Harron playing marimba, can be heard on my Soundcloud site here. The recording and mixing are by Lynette Quek.

About

Roger Marsh studied composition first in London with Ian Kellam, and later at the University of York with Bernard Rands. He spent two years at the University of California, San Diego on a Harkness Fellowship (1976-78) and then lectured in Music at Keele University until 1988 when he returned to York. In the autumn of 1993 he was visiting composer at Harvard University.

On his return to the UK he co-founded (with his wife, the singer Anna Myatt) the contemporary music ensemble Black Hair, which became known for its unusual presentations of new music and music theatre. He is currently Professor of Music at the University of York.

Roger Marsh has written music for all genres: orchestra, small and large chamber groups, and many works for voices, often with a theatrical edge. He is also known for his abridgements and productions of all the novels of James Joyce for Naxos Audiobooks, including Joyce’s Ulysses – unabridged on 22 CDs.